The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-02-12

WIDE are SOLD Tor dress, and perhaps
half a yard of plush or velvet is added
for short revers or a pointed plastron.
for collar and cuffs.
For the better dress, which is to be a
walking and church suit, there are heav.
Ter serges and lightweight cloths, over
| fifty inches wide, that are now made
plainly without 1ounces or plaitings.
Eight yards are enough for the dress
and jacket, and bias fold of velvet on
the edges of the basque and coat, with
a single revers on the lapel front, a
collar and cuffs, complete the costume.
The skirt should be made over an alpacs
foundation skirt, with the material GOV.
ering it plainly from the knees down,
and the overskirt amply draped with.
out trimming. The front may fall
in deep apron, and be ornamented ON
each side with a wide square-cornered
pocket on which are three large buttons
and mock button-holes of cord, and te
this may be added the velvet fold hall
an inch wide; the back of the overskir1
falls over from the top in Arab folds, OF
the fitness is laid in plaits at the bell
that are continuous to the end, or else
| it is the still popular curved swinging
back worn last season. The Jacket NAV
be single-breasted, or else Tapped to be
double on the upper part and slope ia
the middle at the waist line. Such iacketi
are still made quite short, and tailors
say that increasing the length an eighth
OF a yard adds no warmth and detracts
from style. The velvet fold is the stylish
finish for camel s-h air and serge Jacket;
made to complete suits, but separate
jacket Of heavier cloth has braid bind.
| ing, or else the braid is stitched on and
appears as cord finish. Such a suit OF
dark green or blue or golden brown
wool should have small felt bonnet OF
the same shade, edged with felt balls,
and Frightened by high bow of ribbon,
or, if the wearer is very young, a round
hat is worn instead.
For the third, or best dress, to be
worn on gay occasions, wool also serves
and need not be costly, as any pretty
white, pale blue, pearl, sage green,
scarlet, or light heliotrope cashmere or
camel s-hair can be used; this also will
cost only fifty or seventy-fve cents a
yard, and has the further advantage OF
being wearable all the year, serving in
the sumYer for cool days at the noun
tains or seaside. A plush-striped pet
| ticoat of the same color need not add
much to the expense of such dress,
though it is quite possible to make this
dress up tastefully entirely of the wool
goods, adding a separate vest of plated
. surah or of white Irish lace, with bands
of watered ribbon down the middle, and
a dog-collar of the ribbon, or else iabot
of Fedora or Oriental lace may be down
the left side of the corsage, with some
loops of watered ribbon on the right,
with high collar and cuffs of the ribbon
completed by small bows. Sometimes
white watered silk is preferred to plush,
especially for combining with pale gray
and pearl colors, when it is used as a
front or side panel in large plaits, also
as vest, half-collar, and half-cuffs,
being placed only above the vest, while
the collar at the back is of the wool
goods. For darker dress claret-col-
ored cashmere is prettily draped over a
plush petticoat of the same color, and
some rose pink Grape folds are added in
the vest, neck and sleeves. Another
useful and dressy little toilette for a
young blonde is of pistache or apple
green cashmere, with the drapery quite
short in the back as well as the front,
showing all around at the foot green
watered silk lower skirt, which is plain
on the foundation, but is pinked out in
leaf points, and falls on two other rows
of the silk similarly pinked. The basque
has gathered Tapped front edged with
the pinked silk, and the neck and sleeves
have full frills of white point d esprit
net for their becoming finish. A rosette
and sash ribbons are on the left side,
where the drapery is shortest.-Harper'
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